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Most Miles Travelled by a Passenger World Record by Fred Finn

Imagine if you had the airmiles of record-breaking traveller Fred Finn...

He has visited 139 different countries, clocking up 15 million miles - the equivalent of 31 trips to the Moon and back. And he now holds the official world record for most miles travelled by a passenger.

Fred, 70, went on 718 Concorde flights and keeps a detailed log of every journey - each one countersigned by the pilot or driver.

Even though there are still 57 nations Fred has yet to visit, there is only one place left on his holiday wish list.

He said yesterday: "Seeing as I've travelled to most of the Earth, I'd now like to explore the Moon."

Fred was born in Exmouth, Devon, and caught the travel bug at 18 when he took his first flight from an airfield in Hampshire to New York.

The retired international licence manager now lives with wife Alla, 35, in the Ukrainian city of Komsomolsk.

He reckons his total travel bill tops £2million, but most of the journeys have been for work.

On his travels Fred met former Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney, singer Dolly Parton and had dinner in New York with Johnny Cash.

Fred once made three Concorde trips in one day and always sat in seat 9a. He said: "I soon realised that was the one they started serving food and drink from."

He reckons he has flown across the Atlantic more than 2,000 times and visited Africa on 600 occasions.

His favourite place is Kenya and he likes Nigeria the least because it's "lawless".

FRED'S TRAVEL TIPS:

Set your watch to local time when you step off the plane and eat at that country's meal times.

Use hard suitcases to avoid breakages.

Drink water to avoid jet lag.

Always take contact numbers for your family.

Use a travel adaptor that fits all plugs.

FRED FINN'S TRAVEL LOG:

1953 Went on a school trip to Holland, Belgium and France.

1958 First flight to the USA via Scotland and Iceland. He also visited Venezuela, Brazil and Germany.

1959 Italy, Egypt, Ceylon, Australia, Yemen, Madeira, South Africa and the Canaries.

1960 Canada.

1961 Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

1962-63 Back to the USA and Canada again.

1964 Spent nine years travelling from his home in Exmouth to every state in the USA. Also boarded weekly flights between London and New York.

1973 Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

1974-75 Italy, Austria, Portugal, Spain and Malta.

1976-78 Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Slovakia, Greece, Cyprus, Czech Republic and Poland.

1979-81 Iceland, Switzerland Monaco, Moldova, Ukraine, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Yemen.

1982-83 Ethiopia , Eritrea, Sudan, Malawi, Botswana, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Mali and Morocco.

1984-86 Ireland,Seychelles, Mauritius, Guatemala and Cameroon.

1987-88 Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.

1989-93 Jamaica, Trinidad, Bahamas, Barbados, USA, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Kenya, Thailand and Malaysia.

1994-96 India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Singapore.

1997-99 Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Bermuda and Indonesia.

2000-02 Uganda, Gabon, Zambia and Luxembourg.

2003 -PRESENT DAY Niger, Burkina Faso, Benin, Dominica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jordan, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Qatar and Afghanistan.

MIAMI 1989

KENYA 1992

CONCORDE 2003

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